Detective mystery (1930 - 56)
 "Everything comes in circles - even Professor
Moriarty It's all been done before, and will be again."
So said Holmes, and he was right. Conan Doyle killed
Holmes off in disgust, but had to "resurrect"
him and continue the tales, as the public knew what
they liked, and wanted more of the same!
Text on OTRCAT.com ©2001-2010 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved-Reproduction is prohibited. Sherlock Holmes episodes on radio are often dismissed,
as are the many films. Yet for his fans and all lovers
of mystery, the swirling London fogs, murder most
foul, odd villains and an upper class becoming modern
as London's denizens struggle in pitiful poverty means
"the game is afoot!" Holmes actually has
a long and wonderful history on the radio.
.jpg) For American radio, the heroine of Holmes on the
radio was Edith Meiser, an actress who loved the stories
and was convinced they would make great listening.
She scripted several Conan Doyle stories and took
them around. Meiser entrepreneured a fitting sponsorship
for the show herself, and went back to the network
triumphantly. Beginning in the early 1930s, she single handed
wrote the show for over a dozen years, first working
from the Conan Doyle canon, and then continuing to
create stories in the spirit of the originals. A spot
of crass commercialism seeped into the old time radio show
from the start, as Watson himself, played by various
actors, took on the co-host role with a spokesman
for G. Washington Tea as a visitor ready to hear a
Holmes story. Before a blazing fire with tea always
at the brew, Watson reminiscences the great tales
between comments on how good the tea is!
Text on OTRCAT.com ©2001-2010 OTRCAT INC All Rights Reserved-Reproduction is prohibited. In 1955, the transcribed re-ran of the original great
Conan Doyle stories with the fine actors Sir John
Gielgud as Holmes, and Sir Ralph Richardson as Watson,
and in "The Final Problem," Orson
Welles as Moriarty. This series is held in high
regard by all fans of Holmesiana.
For over one hundred years, these Sherlock Holmes
episodes have thrilled and chilled the world. These
radio dramatizations are collected from a variety
of sources, including fine British ones, and together
offer more exciting adventures and more clues to more
mysteries than any mere mortal could possibly keep
straight. But we have a special man in charge. "My
name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know
what other people don't know."
For more brainy detectives, see also: Softboiled Detectives.
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